Town of North Hempstead, NY
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2023-11-14
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The Code
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Chapter 28 Housing, Rehabilitation and Property Maintenance Code
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration and Enforcement
- Ch 2A Unsafe Property and Buildings
- Ch 3 Attendance of Employees At Outside Meetings
- Ch 4 Appearance Tickets; Authority to Prosecute
- Ch 4A Balloons
- Ch 5 Bingo
- Ch 6 (Reserved)
- Ch 7 Building Code
- Ch 8 Building and Safety: Multiple Residence
- Ch 9 Building and Safety: Places of Assembly and Places of Public Assembly
- Ch 9A Building and Safety: Operating Permits
- Ch 10 Numbering of Buildings; Honorary Street Names
- Ch 10A Business Improvement Districts
- Ch 11 Cabarets, Restaurants and Other Places of Public Entertainment
- Ch 11A Cannabis
- Ch 12 Circuses
- Ch 12A Commercial Handbills
- Ch 13 Dealers in Secondhand Merchandise
- Ch 14 Dogs
- Ch 14A Domestic Partnerships, Registration of
- Ch 15 Elections On Propositions
- Ch 15A Election Districts
- Ch 15B Town Clerk; Term of Office
- Ch 16 Employee Organizations
- Ch 16A Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16B Anti-Nepotism
- Ch 17 Excavations, Hazardous
- Ch 18 Highway Excavations and Curb Cuts
- Ch 19 Explosives
- Ch 20 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 20A Environmental Planning, Conservation and Care of Trees
- Ch 20B Environmental Trust Fund
- Ch 20C Manhasset Bay Improvement Fund
- Ch 20D Environmental Legacy Fund
- Ch 20E WTC Relief Fund
- Ch 21 Floodplain Management Regulations
- Ch 22 Fire Prevention
- Ch 22A Games of Chance
- Ch 23 Governmental Departments
- Ch 23A Exemption of Real Property Within Villages
- Ch 24 Governmental Operations
- Ch 25 Grading and Soil Removal
- Ch 26 Highways: Notice of Defect
- Ch 27 Historic Landmarks Preservation
- Ch 28 Housing, Rehabilitation and Property Maintenance Code
- Ch 28 Art I Title; Purpose; Definitions; Scope; Application of Provisions
- § 28-1 Title.
- § 28-2 Policy and purpose.
- § 28-3 Definitions and word usage.
- § 28-4 Scope.
- § 28-5 Application of provisions.
- Ch 28 Art II Space Requirements Within Buildings
- § 28-6 General requirements.
- § 28-7 Maximum occupancy and minimum room size.
- § 28-8 Prohibited uses.
- § 28-9 Basements or cellars.
- § 28-10 Basement dwelling units.
- § 28-11 Lighting and ventilation.
- § 28-12 Heating.
- § 28-13 Dampness.
- § 28-14 Water supplies and sinks.
- § 28-15 Bathrooms.
- § 28-16 Plumbing.
- § 28-17 Electrical requirements.
- § 28-18 Entrances.
- § 28-19 Drainage.
- § 28-20 Exits.
- Ch 28 Art IIA Elevators
- § 28-20.1 Mirrors.
- § 28-20.2 Inspections.
- § 28-20.3 Failure to inspect.
- Ch 28 Art III Property Maintenance Requirements
- § 28-21 General requirements.
- § 28-22 Maintenance standards.
- § 28-23 Hazardous or open excavations or accumulation of industrial or commercial material prohibited.
- § 28-23.1 Graffiti; defacement of property.
- § 28-24 Infestation and screening.
- § 28-24.1 Accumulation and storage of materials prohibited in certain areas.
- § 28-25 Garbage and refuse.
- § 28-26 Nuisances and abatement.
- § 28-27 Responsibilities of occupants.
- § 28-28 Responsibility of owners.
- Ch 28 Art IV Designation of Unfit Dwellings and Legal Procedure of Condemnation
- § 28-29 Designation compliance required.
- § 28-30 Condemnation of dwellings.
- § 28-31 Vacation of dwellings.
- § 28-32 Reoccupation requirements.
- § 28-33 Defacing or removing placard prohibited.
- Ch 28 Art V Inspection of Dwellings, Dwelling Units and Premises
- § 28-34 Inspection authorization.
- Ch 28 Art VI Enforcement; Service of Notices and Orders; Hearings
- § 28-35 Notice of violation.
- § 28-36 Cases of emergency.
- § 28-37 Administration and enforcement; continued violation; payment and contesting of Town costs.
- § 28-37.1 Failure to comply with written directive.
- § 28-37.2 Hearing procedure.
- § 28-37.3 Additional remedies.
- § 28-37.4 Service of notice and written directives.
- Ch 28 Art VIA Fire-Damaged Buildings
- § 28-38 Procedures after fire.
- § 28-39 Notification of intent.
- § 28-39.1 Demolition of building and site clearance.
- § 28-39.2 Demolition and rebuilding of structure.
- § 28-39.3 Repair of building.
- § 28-39.4 Review by Building Official.
- § 28-39.5 Action by Town Board; cost to become a lien.
- Ch 28 Art VII Penalties
- § 28-40 Penalties for offenses.
- § 28-41 Additional penalty for certain offenses.
- Ch 28 Art VIII Certificate of Occupancy
- § 28-42 Certificate required for occupancy.
- Ch 28 Art IX Unconstitutionality or Invalidity
- § 28-43 Severability.
- Ch 28 Art X Construction Site Maintenance
- § 28-44 through § 28-49. (Reserved)
- § 28-50 Legislative intent.
- § 28-51 Property maintenance standards.
- § 28-52 Mandatory action.
- § 28-53 Prohibited actions.
- § 28-54 Material staging areas.
- § 28-55 Construction fences.
- § 28-56 Receptacles, containers and dumpster containers.
- § 28-57 Construction trailers.
- § 28-58 Portable toilets.
- § 28-59 Rebuttable presumption.
- § 28-60 Penalties for offenses.
- § 28-61 Severability.
- Ch 28A Housing, Open
- Ch 29 Inflammable Materials
- Ch 29A Underground Storage of Flammable and Other Hazardous Liquids
- Ch 30 Security Gates On Premises Located Within Any Business District
- Ch 31 Junk Dealers
- Ch 32 Drop-Off Bins
- Ch 33 Launderettes
- Ch 34 Littering and Dumping
- Ch 35 Materials, Deposit of
- Ch 36 Movies and Filming
- Ch 37 Mechanical Bucking Devices
- Ch 38 Noise
- Ch 38A Landscaping and Gardening
- Ch 39 Regulation of Town Parks, Town Gardens and Town Docks
- Ch 39A Payroll Deductions
- Ch 40 Peddlers and Solicitors
- Ch 40A Personal Property, Abandonment of
- Ch 41 Plumbing
- Ch 41A (Reserved)
- Ch 41B Public Parking Fields
- Ch 42 Public Waterways; Structures
- Ch 43 Regulation of Public Spaces
- Ch 44 Regulation of Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 44A Retirement Incentive Program
- Ch 45 Sand Bank and Pit Excavations
- Ch 46 Sanitation
- Ch 46A Stormwater Management and Sediment and Erosion Control
- Ch 47 Sewers
- Ch 47A Water
- Ch 47B Storm Sewers
- Ch 48 Sidewalks
- Ch 49 Snow Removal, Snow Emergencies and Street Cleaning
- Ch 51 Taxation
- Ch 52 Taxicabs, Limousines and Private Livery Vehicles
- Ch 54 Tobacco
- Ch 55 Tow Trucks
- Ch 56 (Reserved)
- Ch 57 Town Facilities
- Ch 58 Governmental Transparency
- Ch 59 Town Lands, Shorefronts and Land Under Water
- Ch 59A Town Property: Notice of Defects
- Ch 60 Trade On Memorial Day
- Ch 61 Trespass
- Ch 62 Unattended Animals
- Ch 63 Unsafe Structures
- Ch 64 Utility Pole Space, Condemnation of
- Ch 64A Double Utility Poles, Removal of
- Ch 64B Utility Pole Hazardous Chemical Warning
- Ch 65 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 65A Vehicles, All-Terrain
- Ch 65B Failure to Stop for School Buses
- Ch 66 Skateboards, In-Line Skates and Similar Devices
- Ch 67 Bamboo
- Ch 69 Waterways and Regulation of Boats
- Ch 70 Zoning
- Ch 75 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
- Appendix
- Ch 80 Locker Rental Fees For Town Beaches
- Ch 81 Fallout Shelter Rules and Regulations
- Ch 99 Miscellaneous Laws
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Traffic Code
- Art I General Provisions
- Art II Traffic Regulations
- Art III Parking, Standing and Stopping
- Art IV Off-Street Firesafety Parking Zones
- Art V Handicapped Parking
- Art VI Removal and Storage of Vehicles
- Art VII Miscellaneous Provisions
- Sch TC1 Traffic Control Signals
- Sch TC2 Speed Limits
- Sch TC3 School Speed Limits
- Sch TC4 One-Way Streets
- Sch TC5 U-Turn Prohibitions
- Sch TC6 Prohibited Turns At Intersections
- Sch TC7 Prohibited Right Turns On Red Signal
- Sch TC8 Stop Intersections
- Sch TC9 Yield Intersections
- Sch TC9A Gridlock Intersections
- Sch TC10 Trucks Over Certain Weights Excluded
- Sch TC11 Parking Prohibited At All Times
- Sch TC12 Parking of Commercial Vehicles Prohibited
- Sch TC13 Parking of Taxicabs Prohibited At All Times
- Sch TC14 No Stopping
- Sch TC15 No Standing
- Sch TC16 Parking Prohibited Certain Hours
- Sch TC17 No Stopping Certain Hours
- Sch TC18 No Standing Certain Hours
- Sch TC19 Time Limit Parking
- Sch TC20 Angle and Head-In Parking
- Sch TC21 Loading Zones
- Sch TC22 Taxi Stands
- Sch TC23 Bus Stops
- Sch TC24 Fire Lanes
- Sch TC25 Class A Fire Zones
- Sch TC26 Class B Fire Zones
- Sch TC27 Snow Emergency Routes
- Sch TC28 Commercial Vehicles Prohibited At All Times
- Sch TC29 Prohibited Street Entry
- Sch TC30 Lane Use Designations
- Sch TC31 Restricted Parking
- Sch TC32 (Reserved)
- Art IX Port Washington Public Parking District
- Art X Parking Area At Mary Jane Davies Green Park
- Art XI Prospect Avenue Parking Field
- Ch TCI Street Index
[HISTORY: Adopted by the North Hempstead
Town Board 5-4-1965; amended in its entirety 11-17-2009 by L.L. No. 16-2009. Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Administration and enforcement — See Ch. 2.
Unsafe property and buildings — See Ch. 2A.
Appearance tickets — See Ch. 4.
Building Code — See Ch. 7.
Building and safety: multiple residence — See Ch. 8.
Hazardous excavations — See Ch. 17.
Plumbing — See Ch. 41.
Sanitation — See Ch. 46.
Sidewalks — See Ch. 48.
Unsafe structures — See Ch. 63.
Zoning — See Ch. 70.
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Editor's Note: The title of this chapter was changed from
"Housing and Rehabilitation Code" to "Housing, Rehabilitation and
Property Maintenance Code" 7-12-2011 by L.L. No. 11-2011.
